show Abstracthide AbstractThe extinct Tasmanian tiger or thylacine was a large, carnivorous Australian marsupial whose resemblance to eutherian canines is one of the most striking examples of convergent evolution in mammals. We have sequenced the genome of an ethanol-preserved thylacine pouch young specimen. Associated data for the current genome release (ThyCyn2.0) including gene annotations are available on FigShare: https://melbourne.figshare.com/articles/dataset/ThyCyn2_0_A_chromosome-scale_hybrid_genome_assembly_of_the_extinct_Tasmanian_tiger_Thylacinus_cynocephalus_/19351607